From the Free Press (filed yesterday):
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George W. Bush is in New Orleans today to deliver a clear and unmistakable message: Drop Dead.
Little in our history can match his administration's astounding non-response to this excruciating human catastrophe.
Before Katrina, even Bush's harshest critics might have found non-credible his leaving tens of thousands of American citizens to suffer and die in utterly gratuitous squalor, disease, hunger and thirst.
Taxpaying American citizens are dying in the heart of a great city because their government can't be bothered to get them clean water. Or a bed. Or to a hospital.
The weather has been clear since Katrina passed. Bush commands the world's most advanced armada of land, sea and airborne vehicles. The resources to save our brothers and sisters are readily available.
But we see our elders, black and white, sitting confused and in pain, dying of heat and thirst and utter neglect in clear, sunny weather while the President of the United States babbles aimlessly and the Secretary of State shops for shoes.
We see babies by the dozen dying of dehydration and hunger where there is no war and no storm, only incompetence and contempt.
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